The Cycle of Social Reproduction Is Created Within the School

question 5

Multiple Choice

The cycle of social reproduction is created within the school because:

• A) blue-collar children are often uncomfortable in a middle-class school environment, so they rebel and are thereby limited to blue-collar jobs when they leave school
• B) middle-class children are more accepting of the rules in school than their blue-collar peers and are therefore more apt to succeed
• C) working-class children increasingly see the school as not operating in their best interests; therefore, they are eager to get to work and earn money rather than continuing with schooling
• D) in many ways, working-class children have a more perceptive attitude toward the organization of the school than do middle-class children, but the latter group sees the school as a vehicle for upward mobility
• E) All of the above.

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Definitions:

Carl Rogers

A pioneering humanistic psychologist known for his theory of personality and his method of client-centered therapy.

Reality Principle

A psychoanalytic concept suggesting that the ego seeks to satisfy the id’s desires in realistic and socially appropriate ways, taking into account the external world.

Pleasure Principle

In psychoanalytic theory, the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates demands between the id, superego, and reality; operates on the reality principle.